(2 Jun 2007)
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STORYLINE:
Masked demonstrators showered police with rocks and beer bottles, then were driven back with water cannons and tear gas during a protest march on Saturday against the upcoming Group of Eight summit in Germany.
The clashes left smoke from burning cars and the sting of tear gas drifting through the harbour front area in the north German port of Rostock.
Some 146 police were hurt, 18 of them seriously but there were no immediate figures on the number of protesters injured.
The officially permitted march preceded a three-day summit beginning on Wednesday in the seaside resort of Heiligendamm, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host the leaders of the so-called G-8 nations; Britain, France, Japan, Italy, Russia, Canada and the United States.
The leaders are expected to discuss measures against global warming, the fight against AIDS and poverty in Africa and the world economy.
As in previous years, the summit has drawn protesters opposed to globalisation, capitalism or the G-8 itself.
Most marchers were peaceful, but others pried up paving stones and broke them into throwing-sized pieces before charging police.
Officers in helmets and full body armour fell back, then charged the demonstrators.
Five large green police trucks with twin water cannons mounted on top blasted groups of rioters, one police car was destroyed and several parked cars burned, spreading black smoke over the area.
There were no immediate numbers for arrests but one police spokesman estimated the number of violence-minded demonstrators at about two thousand.
Police put the size of the demonstration at 25-thousand while organisers said it was 80-thousand.
At one point, a long line of police marched through a harbour side street to scatter demonstrators, and were pelted with stones from behind.
One of the organisers pleaded for calm from a loudspeaker.
The march began without violence, and most of the demonstrators remained peaceful, gathering to listen to speeches from a stage in a large square near the waterfront.
But some taunted members of the 13-thousand strong police detachment from around Germany, and several hundred wore bandanas across their faces with sweat shirt hoods pulled down low to obscure their identities.
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